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MEEK’S OTOE SECTION— continued. Whickonee: 
4, Light drab laminated clay, with streak of black: at one place seen ft. in. 
to swell out so as to form a bunch of coal 6 to 8 inches thick, 
With efilorescence.of iron Sulphate... 2ss- esse meee eee Cent iS 286 
3. Soft, incoherent yellowish sandstone ..-.:.-...92--.--0-- >---s-\ee oye 40) 
2. Soft, bluish, sandy shale, with large, round, and compressed oval 
CONCTELIONS =. 44a aoe. URS oad Se Pee eR EL ern du 0 
1. Bluish and drab clays, in parts more or less arenaceous. Produc- 
és’ Prattenianusie coro tases o oite a eee ee oe ee Pee ee 1530 
Total, exclusive of. loessiandidniit. )....2.2.+.t«c eo ae ere Hel ik6) 
MEEK’S SECTION TWO MILES ABOVE RULO, Thickness. 
: ’ ON THE MISSOURI. fix ane 
<7; Loess; with: perhaps Some drift, 10 105. te accc ounce oe aeceieeeeee 80 0 
G: Massive yellow: lamestone.-1. ¢)-/sstac.os mn pet © cmon dicts us Lok Ce ree a 70 
5. Gray and yellowish impure limestone and drab clays............... 4. 46 
4. Bluish and drab arenaceous clay with fossil ferns. Neuropteris hir- 
Slits AMGGINs TsOseban: <7. inc stim eisi mera apsein aie .-, Heeks ares eee Te 1:0 
Si Coal): ae cee Sele oe asl Sane ae Beret mie < eice ateatis Wee ye ene 0. -.6 
2. Indurated clay, called soapstone by the miners. (Not seen)........ O44: 
1. Bluish laminated sandstone, very soft, with streaks of black, and 
oO 
looking very much like No. 1 in the Brownville section... ...... 
‘‘The whole of this exposure seemed to me to have bodily slipped a little be- 
low its true horizon, probably by the washing away of the soft sandstone beneath 
by the river. This appearance is also affirmed by the statements of the miners, 
who informed me that the coal ended and that all the beds change abruptly at 
the end of the drift, forty or fifty feet in. The thickness, composition and order 
of succession of the beds, however, can be very clearly seen.”’ 
SHAFT AND BORING ONE AND ONE-HALF MILES SOUTH 
Thickness. 
OF RULO. MEEK. t. in 
‘1, Yellow indurated clay, called soapstone by the miners.............. 18 0 
2. Vollow- limestone..ccn o's en op ciate ea RS oe noe cer ee Se eee 37 20 
3. Blue clay. In this clay, lying near the shaft, we have found the fol- 
lowing fossils: Rhombopora lepidodendroides, an encrusting spe- 
cies of Fistulipora; Polypora submarginata, Hemipronites crassus, 
Productus Nebrascensis, P. Prattenianus, Chonetes granulifera, 
Syntrielasma hemiplicata, Spirifer (Martinia) planoconvexus, Sp. 
cameratus, Nucula (?) sp., Pleurotomaria perhumerosa, and sev- 
eral undetermined species of Murchisonia...... ............... 12 O 
4) Bard eray. limestone =< te sic Satis ie ats os ee ie od ee 1B 
MB UWOsCIBY« Se. S405 .aie > oid no.0 aictnseleleryGoaaetetertts 2 enka tee ee i a0 
G: TGiMEBLONE, .. 5 os. 'cn 2k Rea oe ee coe Mle ted he = cee eee Di 
7. Blue clay bored into below the limestone......... BP AP RIA ai BEND Y Dig yl) 
DGG, | os sx on VV SSRs MRE a ele asso ob eae fa, en en ee 76 =«(O 
“At the mouth of the Great Nemaha, a mile or two farther down the Mis- 
souri, Doctor Hayden saw an exposure (the same mentioned by Doctor Owen) 
of soft sandstone rising twenty or thirty feet above the river, with above it a thin 
(five- or six-inch) seam of coal connected with arenaceous shales, containing the 
same ferns found over the bed of coal two miles above Rulo and at Brownville. 
‘‘The elevation of this coal and sandstone here above the Missouri shows 
that there is quite a perceptible rising of the strata in this direction, the same 
coal being only about eight feet above the river two miles above Rulo, though it 
had apparently slidden somewhat below its true horizon at the latter place. I 
am inclined to believe that this sandstone under the coal is the same bed seen at 
Peru and Brownville and at the base of the section at Aspinwall, though it may 
be another holding a lower position. If it is the same, there can be little doubt 
but the exposures here near Rulo hold a position in the series above the horizon 
at the Nebraska City section. On these points, however, more detailed examina- 
tion than we had an opportunity to make are desirable.”’ 
While at Nebraska City and Otoe (Minersville) the greater part of my time 
was devoted to collecting. Most of Meek’s division C is covered by the railroad, 
though the upper part is well exposed, as is also division D. Prosser has shown 
